The Python Software Foundation has warned victims of a new wave of phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website to reset credentials. Accessible at pypi.org, PyPI is the default ...

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate ...

PyPI has long been the go-to source for various kinds of Python modules, libraries, and applications. One of the PyPI maintainers, Dustin Ingram, wanted to discuss some ideas for providing namespaces ...

The Python Package Index briefly suspended the creation of new projects on Thursday to mitigate threat activity involving a large-scale typosquatting campaign and hundreds of malicious python packages ...

These malicious packages - deploying cyberespionage backdoors and targeting Windows and Linux systems - were found circulating via the PyPI repository. Security experts expect the problem to continue.

PyPI, a vital repository for open source developers, temporarily halted new project creation and new user registration following an onslaught of package uploads that executed malicious code on any ...

PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

In the early 2000s, several Python developers wrote and ran their own tools cataloging and linking to available Python packages. In 2002, Richard Jones successfully proposed PEP 301 to create an ...

On Friday, the Python Package Index (PyPI), the official repository of third-party open-source Python projects announced plans to mandate two-factor authentication requirement for maintainers of ...

Compromised MemTensor npm and PyPI packages deliver sckit, a Go-based stealer targeting cloud, registry, source-code, and developer credentials.